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CVE-2016-3076

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the j2k_encode_entry function in Pillow 2.5.0 through 3.1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted Jpeg2000 file.

Affected products

• python-pillow Pillow: 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.6.0, 2.6.0-rc1 (+13)

References

• http://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/4.1.x/releasenotes/3.1.2.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98042
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1321929
• http://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/4.1.x/releasenotes/3.1.2.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98042
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1321929

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